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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1900
Page
7
Advice from Grace-Phillips in the American Queen emphasizes that attractiveness is earned through tasteful dress and demeanor. It warns against frugality that harms appearance, notes the economy of quality basics like hats shoes and gloves, and urges moderate, well-made attire to project prosperity and success.
An American girl, Flora Davis of New York, becomes Countess after the Earl Ava dies from wounds in Ladysmith. She married Terrence Blackwood in 1898 and will not take the Earl title, instead using the father's third title Viscount Clandeboye.
A Nevada professor Laura Smith learns she has a $1 000 000 heir to an English estate valued at about $15 000 000 with her share around one fifteenth. She joined University of Nevada faculty in 1896 and specializes in English literature. The notice notes her youth and career while reflecting on fortunes and war torn stories.
When a person faints lay them flat on their back and turn the head to one side to prevent vomit entering the lungs. If the face reddens avoid stimulants and raise the head a little. If pale, tilt the head slightly over a raised surface, sprinkle with cold water, and hold camphor or ammonia to the nose.
In Liverpool England women seeking work find limited options unless choosing male dominated fields. Some cigar factories hire women but most work as porters carters general laborers or boatmen.
The piece notes Illinois housing the most federated women’s clubs, a national congress of mothers planned in Des Moines, and Massachusetts figures endorsing the trailing arbutus as the national flower. It mentions Paris University women, evolving fashion, Massachusetts Overseer of the Poor bill, and Mme Wu hosting elaborate Washington receptions.
The State Department carries Lord Salisbury's reply denying U S mediation for South Africa. Britain warns Russia and France not to interfere, insists on Boer independence being unresolved, and frames the war as to be fought to the end. Washington will only relay messages between the powers.
President McKinley signed the financial bill in a ceremony, putting the measure into law. The act fixes the value of the dollar to gold content, transfers 150 million dollars in gold to the redemption fund, relaxes national bank capitalization to 25 thousand dollars, and allows banks to issue more currency against bonds up to par value, potentially lifting national bank circulation by roughly 363 million dollars.
The piece notes Methodist preachers average $473.25 salary in the U S last year and cites church funding for missions in England and philanthropic objects. It lists the Waiting Men's Association in Rome at six years, Brooklyn gospel outreach, Moody institutions seeking 3 million, and church groups like Congregational Building Society raising near 250,000 with a loan fund over 650,000. It mentions Christianization efforts in the Philippines and a Paris Catholic congress, plus Bible price rises tied to paper costs.
The article urges farmers to prepare for the June 1900 census of agriculture, detailing that farms will be listed separately, access to data is restricted, and enumerators will collect precise farm size, buildings, machinery, land status, and a wide range of crops and products from 1899. It emphasizes nonpublication of names and the inclusion of diverse crops and farm outputs.
A three story frame tenement in Newark housing Italian families burned in a Monday blaze. Thirteen bodies were recovered within three hours of extinguishing the flames as firemen battled the inferno. Most victims were smothered, many children among the dead in the crowded rooms.
Local snippets report Mrs. Benj Morgenstern of New York dead, a statement about a lynching at Basket Mills, a Davidson North Carolina safe burglary netting $500, five riot deaths and many injuries in a Rio de Janeiro strike, an Oakland doctor claiming cancer cure by X rays, a Security Savings Society fraud in Cleveland, and two prospectors frozen to death in Alaska.
Remains of Abraham Lincoln and six related bodies were removed from a temporary vault beneath the monument while work on the mausoleum proceeds. The vault, twelve feet square with double decks, will receive a mound and slabs weighing two tons each. Authorities vow protection against desecration following a 1876 ransom plot. Governors, officials, and crowds observed, with Gov. Tanner's absence due to illness noted and his secretary acting in his stead. In other news, Attorney General rules 1897 acts invalid. 1896 law still governs sheep killed by dogs, requiring owners to prove ownership within 10 to 40 days.
Preparations are underway for the Dewey celebration on May L. A fire at 187 Francisco street sent a woman and two children escaping narrowly. Mason Trowbridge earns a spot on Yale's debating team, first Chicagoan to do so. Drake, janitor at St Pauls Episcopal, was found dead in the church toilet room. He was 60. Company D of the Second Regiment LN G is mustered out after ongoing unrest. A Arend sells Madison street and Fifth avenue grassist business to A W and G H Adamick. Parishioners at Christ Reformed Episcopal honor Bishop Cheme by paying $9000 debt. Mrs Antoinette W Freer dies at 67, noted in South Side church and society circles. William Sollitt, early hardwood finish builder, dies at 76 after a month illness.
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